How to output colored text to a Linux terminal?

Here we will see how to print some lines into the linux terminal with some color. Here we are doing anything special into C++ code. We are just using some linux terminal commands to do this. The command for this kind of output is like below.

\033[1;31m Sample Text \033[0m

There are some codes for text styles and colors. These are listed below.

Color	Foreground Code	Background Code
Black	30	40
Red	31	41
Green	32	42
Yellow	33	43
Blue	34	44
Magenta	35	45
Cyan	36	46
White	37	47

Some additional options are like below −

Option	Code	Description
Reset	0	Back to normal (remove all styles)
Bold	1	Bold the text
Underline	4	Underline text
Inverse	7	Interchange colors of background and foreground
Bold off	21	Normal from bold
Underline off	24	Normal from Underline
Inverse off	27	Reverse of the Inverse

Example

#include<iostream>
using namespace std;
main() {
   cout << "\033[1;31mThis is bold red text\033[0m\n";
   cout << "\033[;32mGreen Text\033[0m\n";
   cout << "\033[4;33mYellow underlined text\033[0m\n";
   cout << "\033[;34mBlue text\033[0m\n";
}

Output

Karthikeya Boyini

Published on 03-May-2019 07:04:11

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